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Arming citizens a deterrent

Posted: January 23, 2013 8:00 a.m.
Updated: January 23, 2013 5:00 a.m.
Arming citizens is an evidence-based deterrent to crime. In 1982, in Kennesaw, Ga., a suburb of Atlanta and a community similar in size to our own, an ordinance was passed requiring every household, including renters, to own a gun and ammunition. The crime rate in this small Georgia community plummeted and has remained at the same low rate for 31 years. It has the lowest crime rate per capita in the United States. ...

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